Consolidated Notes on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Sessions 1 - 8.
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Session #8 - October 12, 2022 Session #7 “Somewhere a man is wrestling with the taste of a woman in his cheek. Somewhere a dog is barking. Somewhere the moon has fallen through the window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.” Wilson the poet always comes through. Our first love. But Wilson the playwright is hanging out in the back (see Session #3 notes, where I extract Wilson’s philosophy of writing plays), along with his traveling companion, Wilson the pilgrim. It is the poet who catches our attention. It is the pilgrim who walks a mile with us down a long and winding path called Tobacco Road. It is the pilgrim I want to give my attention to here, and the road. I think August Wilson is aware, and is leaving us bread crumbs along the road.
Consolidated Notes on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Sessions 1 - 8.
Consolidated Notes on Ma Rainey's Black…
Consolidated Notes on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Sessions 1 - 8.
Session #8 - October 12, 2022 Session #7 “Somewhere a man is wrestling with the taste of a woman in his cheek. Somewhere a dog is barking. Somewhere the moon has fallen through the window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.” Wilson the poet always comes through. Our first love. But Wilson the playwright is hanging out in the back (see Session #3 notes, where I extract Wilson’s philosophy of writing plays), along with his traveling companion, Wilson the pilgrim. It is the poet who catches our attention. It is the pilgrim who walks a mile with us down a long and winding path called Tobacco Road. It is the pilgrim I want to give my attention to here, and the road. I think August Wilson is aware, and is leaving us bread crumbs along the road.